Ex-Fort star See 3-over after first round at state amateur golf tourney

Parker See, a 2016 Fort Defiance graduate now attending Radford University, is in the first day of stroke-play qualification at the 105th VSGA Amateur Championship at The Federal Club in Glen Allen.(Photo11: Photo courtesy Radford Athletics)

GLEN ALLEN - Parker See has some heavy lifting to do Wednesday if he wants to move on in the 105th Virginia State Golf Association Amateur Championship

See, a 2016 Fort Defiance High School graduate now attending Radford University, is 3-over par after the first round of stroke play qualifying at the Federal Club in Glen Allen. He carded a 75 and was in a tie for 45th place at the conclusion of the round.

He would have to move up at least 13 places to be among the top 32 golfers moving on to match play.

The second day of stroke play is Wednesday, with See teeing off from the 10th hole at 8:33 a.m.

See was at 1-over after nine holes, then got back to even par with a birdie on the par-5 10th hole. He parred the 11th, but then bogeyed the par-4 12th hole of the par-72, 7,073-yard course to go back to 1-over.

He parred the 13th, but bogeyed two of the final five holes — the 14th and the 16th — to fall out of the top 32.

Dustin Groves of Charlottesville had five birdies on the back nine to finish with a 6-under 66 and a three-stroke lead.

The round-of-32 and round-of-16 matches will be played Thursday, with the quarterfinal and semifinal matches set for Friday. The 36-hole championship match is scheduled for Saturday.

See, who transferred to Radford from NCAA Division II Belmont-Abbey after the 2016-17 school year, qualified for the tournament by carding a 7-under-par 65 at the Bide-A-Wee Golf Course in Portsmouth on June 6.